49. 3. “Spirit” means the life of those who have been regenerated, which is called spiritual life.

Jesus said, “Unless you have been born of water and the spirit you cannot enter the kingdom of God.” (John 3:5)

I will give you a new heart and a new spirit. I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes. (Ezekiel 36:26-27)

God will give a new heart and a new spirit. (Ezekiel 11:19)

Create a clean heart in me, O God, and renew a strong spirit within me. Bring back to me the joy of your salvation, and let a willing spirit uphold me. (Psalms 51:10-12)

Make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, O house of Israel? (Ezekiel 18:31)

You send out your spirit, and they are created; you renew the face of the earth. (Psalms 104:30)

The hour is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. (John 4:23)

Jehovah God gives soul to the people and spirit to those who are walking on [the earth]. (Isaiah 42:5)

Jehovah forms the human spirit within us. (Zechariah 12:1)

With my soul I have awaited you in the night; with my spirit within me I have awaited you in the morning. (Isaiah 26:9)

On that day Jehovah will become a spirit of judgment to the one who sits in judgment. (Isaiah 28:6)

My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior. (Luke 1:47)

They have given rest to my spirit in the land of the north. (Zechariah 6:8)

Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me. (Psalms 31:5)

There was not one, even among the remnant who had spirit. (Malachi 2:15)

After three and a half days the spirit of life from God entered the two witnesses who had been killed by the beast. (Revelation 11:11)

I, Jehovah, form the mountains and create the spirit. (Amos 4:13)

O God, the God of the spirits for all flesh... (Numbers 16:22; 27:18)

I will pour a spirit from on high upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem. (Zechariah 12:10)

... even until he has poured out upon us a spirit from on high. (Isaiah 32:15)

I will pour out waters upon those who are thirsty and streams upon the dry land; I will pour out my spirit upon your seed. (Isaiah 44:3)

I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; also upon my male and female servants I will pour out spirit in those days. (Joel 2:28-29)

To pour out the spirit means to regenerate, as does to give a new heart and a new spirit.

[2] “Spirit” refers to the spiritual life of people who have been genuinely humbled.

I dwell in a crushed and humble spirit, to bring to life the spirit of the humble and to bring to life the heart of the crushed. (Isaiah 57:15)

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; God will not scorn a crushed and broken heart. (Psalms 51:17)

He will give the oil of joy in place of mourning, and a garment of praise in place of a confined spirit. (Isaiah 61:3)

... a woman abandoned and afflicted in spirit. (Isaiah 54:6)

Blessed are the poor in spirit, because theirs is the kingdom of the heavens. (Matthew 5:3)

7688. “甚至地都黑暗了” 表虚假被引入真理所在之处. 这从 “黑暗” 的含义清楚可知. “黑暗” 是指虚假 (参看1839, 1860, 4418, 4531节); 因此, “都黑暗了” 是指陷入虚假. 由于此处论述的主题是那些曾经属于教会, 认识真理, 却过着邪恶生活之人的荒凉, 故 “地都黑暗了” 表示真理所在之处的虚假. 真理在内义上由 “光” 表示, 故虚假由 “暗” 来表示; 因为真理和虚假就像光明和黑暗那样是对立面. 那些处于真理的人实实在在拥有光明, 而那些陷入虚假的人实实在在拥有黑暗. 在来世, 那些陷入虚假所住的光在天堂之光面前变成幽暗, 甚至变成在那些曾属教会之人中间的幽暗, 因为他们的虚假与信之真理对立, 正如主在马太福音中所说的话:

你里头的光若黑暗了, 那黑暗是何等大呢! (马太福音 6:23)

又:

惟有本国的子民, 竟被赶到外边黑暗里去了. (马太福音 8:12)

“本国子民” 是指教会成员; “外边黑暗” 是指更严重的虚假; 经上之所以用 “外边” 这个词, 是因为最外面部分中的虚假更严重.

虚假被称为 “黑暗”, 这一点从圣言中的许多经文明显看出来, 如以下经文:

光来到世间, 世人因自己的行为是恶的, 不爱光倒爱黑暗. (约翰福音 3:19)

又:

应当趁着有光行走, 免得黑暗临到你们; 我到世上来, 乃是光, 叫凡信我的, 不住在黑暗里. (约翰福音 12:35, 46)

以赛亚书:

祸哉! 那些称恶为善, 称善为恶, 以暗为光, 以光为暗的人! (以赛亚书 5:20)

耶利米书:

耶和华你们的神未带来黑暗, 你们的脚未在昏暗山上绊跌之先, 当将荣耀归给祂, 免得你们盼望光明, 祂使光明变为死荫, 成为幽暗. (耶利米书 13:16)

以西结书:

我将你扑灭的时候, 要把天遮蔽, 使众星昏暗, 以密云遮掩太阳, 月亮也不放光. 我必使所有的光体都在你以上变为昏暗, 使你的地上黑暗. (以西结书 32:7, 8)

约珥书:

耶和华的日子将到, 已经临近. 那日是黑暗, 幽冥冥的日子, 是密云, 乌黑的日子. (约珥书 2:1, 2; 阿摩司书 5:18-20)

西番雅书:

那日是忿怒的日子, 是急难困苦的日子, 是荒废凄凉的日子, 是黑暗, 幽冥的日子. (西番雅书 1:15)

在这些经文中, “黑暗” 表示虚假. 在圣言中, “黑暗” 还表示对真理的无知, 诸如存在于没有圣言, 对主一无所知的外邦人当中的那种.